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FORMER SOUTHEAST PRESIDENT FOSTER TO INTERIM JOB AT SOUTHWEST BAPTIST
(Local News ~ 12/08/92)
A former Southeast Missouri State University president has accepted a position as interim president of Southwest Baptist University at Bolivar. Robert W. Foster, who served as Southeast's 13th president from July 1989 to July 1990, is scheduled to begin his duties at Southwest Baptist today...
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CHANGES TO CITY TRASH PICKUP FEES SUGGESTED
(Local News ~ 12/08/92)
A citizens Solid Waste Task Force Monday recommended the Cape Girardeau City Council implement volume-based pricing for solid-waste service. The council will consider adoption of the task force's recommendations Dec. 21. Calvin Chapman, chairman of the task force, said the group generally approved of the city's solid-waste operations...
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OFFICES: ECONOMIC GROUP HAS TWO OPTIONS
(Local News ~ 12/08/92)
JACKSON - The recently formed Cape Girardeau Area Industrial Recruitment Association will have its choice of at least two office locations that will be offered at no cost. Cape Girardeau Mayor Gene Rhodes, chairman of the association's board of directors, presented a proposal he had received from Capital Bank, while member John Mehner outlined an offer from the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce...
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10 DAYS REMAIN: TOYBOX CAMPAIGN NEEDS BOOST
(Local News ~ 12/08/92)
Just 10 days remain before Toybox volunteers deliver gifts to needy children, but at this point in the campaign the list of youngsters far outnumbers the toys that have been donated. Applications will be accepted through Friday. While organizers are confident that toys will arrive this week and in the first days of next week, the calendar marches on...
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JACKSON MAYOR RACE IS POSSIBLE; SANDER SAYS HE MAY FILE AGAINST MEYER
(Local News ~ 12/08/92)
JACKSON -- A rare mayor's race could highlight next spring's Jackson municipal election. Ward 1 Alderman Paul Sander said Monday he is considering running against the 11-term incumbent mayor, Carlton Meyer. Sander told a reporter after Monday's Board of Alderman meeting, "I am considering running either for another term as alderman or the position of mayor."...
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CABLE ALTERNATIVE: SCOTT CITY COUNCIL SEEKING PROPOSALS FOR SERVICE AFTER HEARING COMPLAINTS
(Local News ~ 12/08/92)
SCOTT CITY -- The Scott City Council is actively seeking an alternate cable television system to bring down prices and improve service for the city's residents. At its regular meeting Monday night, the council discussed revamping the city's current cable arrangement for the second time in two meetings...
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JCPENNEY WILL HOLD FOOD DRIVE
(Local News ~ 12/08/92)
A food drive sponsored by JCPenney will be held Wednesday and Thursday at the Cape Girardeau store. The store will collect can goods at its West Park Mall entrance and the Styling Salon from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. both days. The food will be donated to the Safe House, the Gibson Center, Salvation Army and FISH...
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HORSESHOE RESIDENTS CONCERNED OVER LAKE
(Local News ~ 12/08/92)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Horseshoe Lake is filling up, and area residents around the 2,400-acre lake are concerned. "We need more water," said Elmer Roberts Jr. of Olive Branch. "They need to raise the spillway dam another eight inches now." "If we don't get more height on the dam, we're dead," said Don Masterson, who operates two businesses around the shallow lake...
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COUPLE WITH FEW FRILLS WOULD ENJOY TV GAME
(Local News ~ 12/08/92)
A friend recently gave Mr. I a Nintendo machine, but no games were included. Mr. I, who had a leg amputated and whose other health problems keep him at home most of the time, thought Nintendo might make a good pastime. But then Mr. I priced the games needed to play; he decided he had better put the machine aside for now...
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THE PUBLIC MIND: IN PEACE-ON-EARTH SEASON, CHRISTIANS SHOULD EXTEND CHARITY, RESPECT TO HOMOSEXUALS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/08/92)
Dear Editor: I continue to read with amazement articles, letters to the editor, and comments in Speak Out in the Southeast Missourian which serve the purpose of fomenting hatred toward homosexuals. I can think of no other segment of American society about which the public would tolerate such bigotry. ...
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DRINKING AND DRIVING ARE DEADLY COMBINATION
(Editorial ~ 12/08/92)
This month's annual Mothers Against Drunk Driving Red Ribbon Campaign is a noble cause rooted in tragedy the needless carnage caused by drunk drivers. It's ironic that amid the holiday joy of the Christmas season, drunk drivers have caused so much sadness...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 12/08/92)
Daughter to Brian Lillibridge and Lisa Webb of Tamms, Ill., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 4:03 a.m. Monday, Nov. 16, 1992. Name, Brittany Nicole. Weight, 7 pounds 7 ounces. First child. Miss Webb is the daughter of Richard and Shelby Webb of Tamms, and is a student at Egyptian High School in Olive Branch, Ill. Lillibridge is a service agent at Budget Car Rental in Olathe, Kan., and a student at Mid America Nazarene College. He is the son of Wes and Leila Lillibridge of Scott City...
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JOSEPH G. GUCCIONE
(Obituary ~ 12/08/92)
SIKESTON -- Joseph G. Guccione, 67, of Sikeston, died Sunday, Dec. 6, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born June 25, 1925, in St. Louis, son of Leonardo and Vita Guccione. He and Margaret Tyson were married Jan. 31, 1959. Guccione was chief clerk at Showboat Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev., and member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Sikeston...
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TCI HASN'T ANNOUNCED RATE HIKE HERE
(Local News ~ 12/08/92)
A story in Monday's Missourian concerning cable television in Chaffee implied cable rates would be going up in Cape Girardeau in January. Roger Harms, manager of TCI of Cape Girardeau, said the confusion may have arisen over the fact that TCI of Illinois has announced it will increase cable rates after the first of the year...
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TWO ARE HURT IN ACCIDENT NEAR MORLEY
(Local News ~ 12/08/92)
MORLEY -- A Benton woman and a Sikeston man received minor injuries Monday afternoon when their cars collided on Highway 61 three miles south of Morley. Injured were drivers Loretta Harris, 67, and Mark Crader, 43. Both sought their own medical treatment...
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GENE A. JONES
(Obituary ~ 12/08/92)
WHITEWATER -- Gene A. Jones, 62, of Carlyle, Ill., died suddenly Sunday, Dec. 6, 1992, at his home. He was born Nov. 4, 1930, in St. Louis, son of Howard H. and Edith Herzinger Jones. He and Peggy J. Smith were married June 2, 1950, at Jackson. Jones taught school at Whitewater, and then worked for Natural Gas Pipeline. He had lived in Carlyle since 1975, and was plant foreman at the Hoffman facility until retiring...
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NICA B. CALVIN
(Obituary ~ 12/08/92)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Nica B. Calvin of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Charles Buck will officiate, with burial in Sikeston City Cemetery. Calvin, 94, died Monday, Dec. 7, 1992, at Miner Nursing Center in Miner...
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PAULINE GREEN
(Obituary ~ 12/08/92)
BELL CITY -- Funeral service for Pauline Green of Bell City will be held at 10 a.m. today at Ponder Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. The Rev. Jerry Turner will officiate, with burial in Stanfield Cemetery at Clarkton. Green, 87, died Saturday, Dec. 5, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...
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ADELLA A. TROST
(Obituary ~ 12/08/92)
CHAFFEE -- Adella Ann Trost, 74, of Chaffee, died Sunday, Dec. 6, 1992, at her home. She was born Feb. 21, 1918, near Oran, daughter of Theodore Martin and Bernedine Elizabeth Eftink Kiefer. She married Buford Boniface Trost Oct. 12, 1943. He died Feb. 4, 1964...
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DONALD E. BASS
(Obituary ~ 12/08/92)
Graveside service for Donald E. Bass of Mountain View, Calif., will be held Saturday at Friend Cemetery in Oran. The Rev. John Gregory will officiate, and Chaffee VFW will conduct graveside rites. Bass, 56, died Saturday, Nov. 21, 1992, at Mountain View...
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BALMAR E. TOWNLEY
(Obituary ~ 12/08/92)
ADVANCE -- Balmar E. Townley, 73, of Advance, died Monday, Dec. 7, 1992, at her home. She was born Oct. 26, 1919, at Hellyville, Ala., daughter of William Sherman and Alice Elizabeth Flanagan Head. She and Grover Allen Townley were married in 1954. Townley was a member of the Pentecostal Church in Corinth, Miss...
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THOMAS D. MCKENNA
(Obituary ~ 12/08/92)
PULASKI, Ill. -- Thomas DeWayne McKenna Jr., 31, of Aptos, Calif., died Sunday, Dec. 6, 1992, in Aptos. He was born Oct. 12, 1961, in South Bend, Ind., son of Thomas D. and Sandy Palm McKenna Sr. McKenna was a computer programmer with Omni Corp. in San Jose, Calif...
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DR. STEPHEN PARKS
(Obituary ~ 12/08/92)
BLOOMFIELD -- Funeral service for Dr. Stephen Parks of Bloomfield will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Chapel. The Revs. Don Cooper, Roger Foster and Andy Pratt will officiate, with burial in Rock Point Cemetery near here. Parks, 68, died Saturday, Dec. 5, 1992, at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff...
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`CALLS FROM SANTA' PROGRAM NEXT WEEK
(Local News ~ 12/08/92)
The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department will sponsor its fifth annual "Calls From Santa" program Dec. 14-17. Parents may register children by mailing a form provided in the Parks and Recreation Fall Brochure, filling out a form at the A.C. Brase Arena Building, or by calling the information to the Parks and Recreation office...
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